Top 1200 Holiness Of God Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.

Holiness is not a luxury, it's a necessity. If you're not holy, you'll never make it to Heaven [Heb. 12:14].

stop the darkness and its amputations and find the real McCoy in the private holiness of my hands.

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self.

Well, what is God, then? God is that which watches. God is neither masculine nor feminine, although God can assume any form. God is that eternal reality that is in everything.

Self-confidence means thinking all the time, "God is in me... God is doing every­thing . . . without God I cannot be . . . all this is God . . . I only want to think of God."

Jesus calls us to a holiness that is positive, generous and openhearted. It's a difficult, daring challenge - do we accept it?

We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time.

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.

It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book that it is.

I'll pit my God against your god any day, I say to the Calvinists. It's not their god I'm praying to.... The God I'm praying to is neither male nor female. My God is the one who exists apart from all of men's agendas, the God who takes you away when there is no possible place you can go.

Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness.

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God'; the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. ... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to dwell in God's presence, to listen to God's voice, to look at God's beauty, to touch God's incarnate Word and to taste fully God's infinite goodness.

Intellectually I touched God many times as truth and emotionally I touched God as love. I touched God as goodness. I touched God as kindness. It came to me that God is a creative force, a motivating power, an over-all intelligence, an ever-present, all pervading spirit - which binds everything in the universe together and gives life to everything. That brought God close. I could not be where God is not. You are within God. God is within you.

Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love

Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

Christ is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.

What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.

Now that the Sanctity and Holiness of heterosexual marriage has been destroyed, are they going to cancel The Bachelor?

Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

So, I'm not on a diet. I'm on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness.

Holiness through Christ's Spirit is the accountability every Christian should be striving towards.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose - and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.

Escape from the power of the hunting pack, and to know that wisdom is best and beauty sheer holiness.

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

The more we devote ourselves to the pursuit of holiness and happiness, the less likely we will be on a path to regrets.

If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has nothing in you of a saving character.

A Christian should know that God is a Creator, that God is an entity that is all-powerful and all knowledgeable, God is everywhere and God is an entity filled with grace, love, compassion and forgiveness, that Jesus is the son of God and Jesus came on earth to explain to people in a very revolutionary way the nature of God, that God was not a stern judge who was keeping track of 600 or so rules and regulations that you had to keep in order to be acceptable to God.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness.

Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.

Let us defend the home as a place which is second only to the temple in holiness.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.

The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office of the law to remind them of their duty and thereby to excite them to the pursuit of holiness and integrity. But when their consciences are solicitous how God may be propitiated, what answer they shall make, and on what they shall rest their confidence, if called to his tribunal, there must then be no consideration of the requisitions of the law, but Christ alone must be proposed for righteousness, who exceeds all the perfection of the law.

When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it.

All who have lived according to God still live unto God, though they have departed this life. For this reason, God is called the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, since He is the God, not of the dead, but of the living

The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.

I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.

But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.

My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.

Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .

God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?

The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in the other, the lover.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

When you eat, I want you to think of God, of the holiness of hands that feed us, of the provision we are given every time we eat. When you eat bread and you drink wine, I want you to think about the body and the blood every time, not just when the bread and wine show up in church, but when they show up anywhere- on a picnic table or a hardwood floor or a beach.